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Les Arts Florissants Les Arts Rameau Lully d’Ambruis M-A Charpentier interval The FairyQueen King Arthur William Christie Les Indesgalantes Platée Hippolyte et Aricie hymen tout l’Olympepropice’ Purcell Ariodante L’Allegro, ilPenseroso edilModerato O Handel ‘Welcome to allthepleasures’ Purcell Coronation Anthems–‘Zadok thePriest’ Handel Sunday 8December2019 7.30pm, Hall Florissants Arts Years40 of Les Odyssey A Baroque Part of Barbican Presents 2019–20 Lisandro Abadie Marc Mauillon Marcel Beekman Christophe Dumaux Lea Desandre Sandrine Piau Paul Agnew hearing aidto T setting onentering thehall. Please useourinduction loop–justswitch your Use ahearingaid? the performance. Take photos ormake recordings during Please don’t... the performance. Turn off watch alarmsandphonesduring Please do... rlando Atys –excerpts The FairyQueen Ode for St Cecilia’sDay, 1683 –overture;
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2 advertising by Cabbell(tel 02036037930) Programme produced by HarrietSmith; a testament to thescheme’ssuccessthatno through itsAcademy, LeJardin desVoix. It’s nurtured anew generation of singers Monteverdi to Mozartandithasalso has continuedto championmusicfrom As timeshave changed,LesArtsFlorissants names. that thesecomposersare now household in nosmallmeasure thanks to hisefforts Lully, M-A CharpentierandRameau. It’s his beloved French composers–notably Central to WilliamChristie’s visionwere composers whohad fallen into neglect. instruments, into themusicof Baroque new life, through theuseof period ensemble in1979 hisaimwas to breathe When WilliamChristiefounded the Florissants. celebrating the40thanniversary of LesArts A warm welcome to thisspecialconcert Welcome
Huw Humphreys, Head of Music,Barbican I hopeyou enjoy it. It promises to beawonderful celebration. français tomorrow nightat8pm. be shown attheCinéLumière attheInstitut William Christie,Theartof giving Florissants initsanniversary documentary You canfind outmore aboutLesArts Associate MusicalDirector in2013. the ensembleandtook upthepositionof Paul Agnew, whobeganasasoloistwith directing honoursare WilliamChristieand with HandelandPurcell. Sharingthe Lully andCharpentierrubbingshoulders range of Baroque highlights,withRameau, Tonight’s concert showcases avibrant Mauillon –are Jardin alumni. Desandre, Christophe Dumaux andMarc fewer thanthree of tonight’s soloists–Lea which will whichwill
that ledBeethoven to exclaim: ‘Whenhechooses, of thechorusisjustkindof Handeliancoup change precisely calculated, thestupendous entry slow-burn introduction for strings,each harmonic at every subsequentBritishcoronation. After a The mostfamous, naturalised Saxon asBritain’s nationalcomposer. coronation of George IIenshrinedtherecently four anthemsHandelcomposedin1727 for the With theirAugustan splendourof sonority, the work designedasroyal entertainment. to Act 3 encapsulates thelight-hearted spiritof a of Frederick, Princeof Wales. ThejauntySinfonia performed inMay 1736 to celebrate thewedding most lavish was Handel’s pastoral opera dance andeye-catching sceniceffects. Oneof the specialised inproductions thatcombinedmusic, The Beggar’sOpera on theback of thefortune hehad made from John Richathisnew Covent Garden theatre, built He quicklyteamed upwiththeactor-manager Yet trueto form, Handelremained unbowed. Theatre, Haymarket, seemedto spelltheend. 1720s. Thedisastrous 1733–4 seasonin the King’s precarious after thegloryyears of theearly Handel’s operatic fortunes were increasingly vite’ Ariodante round’ well trod stage anon’;‘Orletthemerrybellsring L’Allegro, ilPenseroso edilModerato scellerati spettri!’ Orlando Alcina George Frideric Handel ‘Welcome to allthepleasures’ Ode for St Cecilia’sDay, 1683 –overture; Henry Purcell (1659–95) HWV258 Coronation Anthems–‘Zadok thePriest’, Atalanta George Frideric Handel(1685–1759) OdysseyA Baroque he strikes like athunderbolt.’ – ‘Tornami avagheggiar’ –‘Vaghe pupille…Ah!stigielarve, ah! –Sinfonia to Act 3 –‘Scherzainfida’; ‘Bramo aver mille Zadok thePriest . Trained asadancer, Rich , has been sung , hasbeensung – ‘I’ll to thee – ‘I’llto thee Atalanta , Handel’s earlyItalian cantatas. its seductive melodyplundered from oneof coloratura showstopper ‘Tornami avagheggiar’, hedonism, Morgana, Alcina’ssister, performs the the ariathatclosesAct 1inaspiritof unbridled to prove thecomposer’slastoperatic triumph.In no fewer than18 performances, thoughitwas (which was premiered on16 April1735) achieving furioso based onepisodesfrom Ariosto’s epic Garden theatre, Handel’s first two operas for John Rich’sCovent mode. grandeur before relaxing into amore playful begins. Thetrioof voices enter withaceremonial rhythms withwhich‘Welcome to allthepleasures’ that settheoverture inmotion to thedancing touches, from thegrindingstringdissonances bright Cecilia Purcell’s later odefor thesameorganisation, 22 November 1683. Thoughlessfamous than Society to celebrate thesaint’sbirthday on commissioned by agroup calledTheMusical sets atext by Christopher Fishburnandwas Henry Purcell’s 1683 between Italian opera and works inEnglish:the always staved off bankruptcy), henow wavered parlous state (thoughhisaristocratic backers watershed for Handel.Withhisfinances in a The years between 1738 and1741 were a bass. ThePurcellian echoeshere are unmissable. with apiercing lamentover achromatic ground courtly gavotte (‘Vaghe pupille’)andcontinues multi-tempo ariathatbeginsasanironically ‘Stygian boat’andculminates inadisturbed, includes afew bars in5/8timedepictingCharon’s performances. Thehero’s celebrated mad scene the title-role, a glittering cast,includingthecastrato Senesinoin cult of reason. AlthoughHandelhad assembled passions chimedperfectly withtheEnlightenment’s dangerous hero’s struggleto master hisunhinged Theatre. Thesubjectof thehalf-comic,half- Ariosto-inspired opera, Two years earlierHandelhad premiered another . Both were very successful,with Orlando , itisfullof instantly recognisable Ariodante Ode for St Cecilia’sDay survived for justahandfulof Orlando and Alcina , at the King’s , attheKing’s , are both Alcina Orlando Orlando
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3 Programme note 4 Theatre, off Fleet Street, inMay 1692. Whilethe Christopher Wren’s elegantnew DorsetGarden Midsummer Night’s Dream The FairyQueen singers, actors anddancers,with coststo match. Queen King Arthur extravaganzas, dubbed‘semi-operas’: composed themusicfor four suchmulti-media music, danceandexotic sceniceffects. Purcell to take an existing play, fillet itand stuff itwith temperament. Therecipe for publicsuccesswas deemed aliento the‘robust’ and‘manly’English dangerously exotic Italian import–was still In HenryPurcell’s London,all-sungopera –that The FairyQueen King Arthur while we tripit’;Fairies’ Dance ‘Echo’; ‘Now joinyour warbling voices’; ‘Sing songsters’; Prelude; ‘May theGodof Witinspire’; The FairyQueen Henry Purcell duet ‘Bramo aver millevite’. Ginevra express theirconstancy intheexuberant Polinesso confesses hiscrime,andAriodante and villainous Duke Polinesso, untangles. Thedying basses. Inthefinal act theplot, hatched by the between muted upperstringsandpizzicato infinitely whilebassoonsweave amournfulplaint profound arias,thevocal lineseemsto expand ‘Scherza infida’. Inthis,oneof Handel’smost Ginevra prompts anoutpouringof despairin apparent faithlessness of Ariodante’s betrothed castrato Giovanni Carestini inthetitle-role. The alluring French dancerMarieSalléandthe its premiere in1735 thanks to itstwo stars: the Handel’s winds soonlull’dto sleep’. portrayal of thedrowsy villagers ‘by whisp’ring an exquisite –and,again, distinctlyPurcellian – evoking Englishchange-ringing,andendswith begins indancingelation,withatinklingcarillon anon’, while‘Orletthemerrybellsringround’ humouredly confident in‘I’llto theewell trod stage idyll. Themusicof L’Allegro isatitsmostgood- introvert (IlPenseroso) whileevoking anArcadian temperaments of theextrovert (L’Allegro) andthe and CharlesJennens,explore thecontrasting poems, skilfullyinterleaved by JamesHarris ed ilModerato winter of 1740 by theode oratorios . Each involved three separate castsof Ariodante Saul , –Passacaglia The FairyQueen and . Milton’s two complementary was freely adapted from –‘Now thenightischasedaway’ –Prelude to Act 2;‘Come allye Israel inEgypt scored afair successon L’Allegro, ilPenseroso andwas first staged at and , followed inthe The Indian The Indian Dioclesian A , the Paris Opéra. chaconnes thatwere this hugemovement pays overt homage to the and choruses.Buildingto amagnificent climax, bass thatinterleaves dance,solos,duets,trios happy thelover’) over arepeated four-bar ideas, writinganelaborate passacaglia (‘How prescribed, simply, ‘minuet’.Purcell had other entertainment. Atthecentre of Act 4Dryden – was plannedfrom theoutsetasamulti-media play –afarrago of pseudo-history andfantasy Purcell’s semi-operas inthatDryden’spatriotic Premiered in1691, the birthday of KingOberon’. chorus inacelebration of ‘Thathappy, happy day, the natural order, andafairy attendant leads the from Act 4,asdaybreak bringswithitareturn to upbeat ‘Now thenightischasedaway’ comes soprano-led songanddancefor thefairies. The join your warbling voices’, followed by askipping, ears distinctlyHandelian–Cmajorchorus,‘Now composers. Thencomesasonorous –andto our trade ontheechoeffects beloved of Baroque ‘May theGod of Witinspire’ anditspostlude which recorders evoke forest birdsong, thetrio floridly Italianate. After anethereal prelude in ‘Come allye songsters’ isPurcell athismost as sheprepares for bed.Thecountertenor aria In theAct 2masquethefairies entertain Titania drama. arise naturally, orsupernaturally, from thespoken a tangential connectionwith theplay itself,they five allegorical-mythical fairy masqueshave only Les Artsflorissants Guise, acousinof theking’s. house composerto MariedeLorraine, Duchessof Charpentier, whospentmuchof hiscareer as of thesewas theRome-trained Marc-Antoine rivals were sidelined. Arguably themosttalented French musicalnationalism,ensured thatpotential ambitious Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born iconof his way into LouisXIV’sfavour, theboundlessly was rife with cabalsandfactions. Having wormed Parisian musicallife inthe17th and18th centuries ‘Amour ducieletdelaterre’ Les Artsflorissants Marc-Antoine Charpentier(1643–1704) interval chamber opera from whichWilliam Christie’s 20minutes , Charpentier’s allegorical , Charpentier’sallegorical –’Que mes divins concerts’; –’Que mesdivinsconcerts’; King Arthur de rigueur is unique among isuniqueamong inLully’sworks for Based onatale from Ovid’s from gangrene poisoning in1687. an average of oneopera ayear untilhisdeath roll. Withlibrettist PhilippeQuinaultheproduced Musique, aka theParis Opéra. Hewas now ona produce operas for theAcadémie Royale de obtained theexclusive rightto composeand After unscrupulousintriguing,in1672 Lully Atys Jean-Baptiste Lully(1632–87) literally butasametaphor for youth andlove. elaborate vocal linecelebrating springnot only simple ground bassunfolds anincreasingly d’Ambruis publishedin1685. Over aninitially silence of ourwoods) comesfrom abookof airs du Roi Louis XIV’s tradition of theFrench is apparent from thisexample. Heinherited the music histories, butthathewas amaster of the he islittlemore thanafootnote ineven specialist the details of hislife are shrouded inmystery and now withan The music-makingtakes amore intimate turn Le douxsilencedenosbois Honoré d’Ambruis (1660–1702) terre’) by turnsidyllicandexcitable. is followed by achorus(‘Amourducieletdela divins concerts’,minglingrecitative and the five engineers therequisite happy end.Inthefirst of is briefly threatened by LaDiscorde before LaPaix under theSunKing’sbenignpatronage. Theidyll Peinture, LaPoésie andL’Architecture –flourishing the flimsy plot shows theArts–LaMusique, Larded withtheobligatory royal sycophancy, a tribute to LouisXIV’srecent military victories. Duchess’s Parisian group takes itsname,was performed atthe ‘Dormons, dormons tous’. for Sleepandhissons, culminatinginthelulling strings, andcontinues withsolosandensembles begins withahauntingprelude for recorders and reveal herlove for theyouth Atys inadream. This which thegoddessCybèle asks thegodof Sleepto example isthe in thesleepscene,or publicly premiered inApril1676. Lullyspecialised en musique –Prélude: ‘Dormons,dormonstous’ . ‘Le doux silence de nos bois’ (The soft . ‘Ledouxsilencedenosbois’(Thesoft entrées maître demusiquelaChambre
Atys air divertissement , La Musique’s rapt solo ‘Que mes , LaMusique’srapt solo‘Quemes by Honoré d’Ambruis.Muchof was heard first atcourt,then hôtel sommeil air in1685, perhapsas from Michel Lambert, from MichelLambert, Fasti inAct 3of . The most famous . Themostfamous , the tragédie arioso Atys , in , in , air replete withcartsfullof grapes harvested by by anoverture conjuring ‘a vineyard inGreece’, evidently anything butabeauty. Thesceneisset between Platée andtheDauphin’sbride,who was Contemporaries gleefullyseizedonthe parallel Pierre deJélyotte), canbetoe-curlingly cruel. (originally played indrag by thehightenor of thegrotesque marshnymph of thetitle comic opera, thoughitshumour, attheexpense the Dauphinin1745, Composed for thewedding celebrations of Pluton estinflexible’. arioso Neptune inthesombrely intense recitative and underworld, Theseusinvokes thehelpof hisfather in vain to rescue hisfriendPerithous from the Rameau’s lifetime. that the so-called‘Ramistes’ –won theday, somuch harmonic boldness.ButRameau’s supporters – Lullistes were fazed by themusic’scomplexity and also proved controversial. Conservative-minded on 1October 1733 andmade Rameau famous. It Hippolyte Spartan warrior Tyrtaeus. Cupid to lightthetorch for hermarriage to the Musique’, theSpartan PrincessIphisecallson the secondof itsthree allegoricalentrées, ‘La prioritises danceandspectacle over drama. In fêtes d’Hébé stage. Premiered in1739, the devoted therest of hislonglife to musicfor the first opera, surprised hiscontemporaries, heproduced his harpsichord. Inanartistic pedagogue andcomposerof musicfor the decades of hiscareer inParis asanorganist, Jean-Philippe Rameau spentthefirst three Nouvelle Entrée, ‘Lessauvages’ –‘Forêts paisibles’ Les Indesgalantes concerts’; ‘Aux langueursd’Apollon’ Air pourlesfous gays; ‘Formons lesplusbrillants Platée – ‘PuisquePluton estinflexible’ Hippolyte et Aricie l’Olympe propice’ Les fêtes d’Hébé Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) and Euripides’ her stepson Hippolytus,draws onRacine’s on theguiltylove of Theseus’swife Phaedra for Abbé Simon-JosephPellegrin’s libretto, centring Hippolyte ‘Ah! Qu’on daigne du moins’ – ‘Puisque ‘Ah!Qu’ondaignedumoins’–‘Puisque –overture; ‘Queceséjourestagréable’; was first performed attheParis Opéra Hippolyte et Aricie isalightanddecorative work that achieved over 100 performances in Hippolytos – ‘Pour rendre àmonhymen tout – ‘Ah! Qu’on daigne du moins’ –‘Ah!Qu’ondaignedumoins’ – Entrée II,‘LesincasduPérou’ Platée . Having attempted volte-face is Rameau’s sole isRameau’s sole opéra-ballet , at 50, and then , at50,andthen that that
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5 Programme note 6 Pascal Gely musicologist andteacher andapioneer inthe William Christieis aharpsichordist, conductor, William Christie About the performers pastoral ariadelicately accompanied by flute and dialogue for thelovers, Phaniinvokes Hymen ina After aninstrumental introduction andatense the Sun. threatened by thejealousHuascar, HighPriestof Princess PhaniandtheSpanishofficer Carlosis ‘Les incasduPérou’, themutuallove of theInca the second,andmostcolourful,of itsfour of exotic locations,from Turkey to Louisiana.In (1735), transports amorous Europeans to aseries Rameau’s first langueurs d’Apollon’. chapter andverse onthecrueltyof Love in‘Aux forth thebestof music’shebegins,before giving accompanies herselfonthelyre. ‘Letuspour the sublimeto theridiculousledoff by Folly who fous gays’, asequenceof dancesranging from characterisation to gooduseinthe‘Airpourles extraordinary earfor colourandsometimescruel and croaking frogs. Rameau again getsto puthis minuet, accompanied offstage by cuckoo calls mountain kingCithéron inawould-be decorous believing herselfirresistible, fantasises aboutthe mix. In‘Queceséjourestagréable’ thenymph, Rameau adding pungentdarker tingesto the But themusicitselfisnot merely bucolic,with centre isThespis–authorof thecomedy–asleep. peasants, together withvats andpresses; atits William Christie opéra-ballet director , Les Indesgalantes entrées
, Programme note ©Richard Wigmore in duetto celebrate theirhappiness. (who hasseenoff hisrival, thefickle Damon)join this timeZimaandherchosenyoung manAdario Pipe of Peace. Love isagain thetheme,though America to celebrate theceremony of the Great French andSpanishcoloniesgatherinaforest in in whichhistrionicsare replaced by humouras We endwiththelastof the bays for vengeance. volcanic eruptionthatengulfstheHighPriestashe against Huascar, andaneven more violent powerfully dramatic triothatpitches thelovers terrified crowd disperses,the this musicthatRameau initiallycutit!).After the (the originalperformers were sononplussedby and avolcano ‘spewing swirls of fire andsmoke’ and percussive stringsunleashanearthquake coup dethéâtre for cinematicvividness;andinaspectacular No Baroque composercouldmatch Rameau loure and,finally, apairof graceful gavottes. chorus ‘Clairflambeau dumonde’,anangular with aprocessional dance,anexultant soloand for theHighPriestandIncascontinues the Festival of theSun.Thisopenswithalively air for loving anenemy. Atthecentre of the violin. Emerging from hiding,Huascarberates her Ariodante Jephtha at theBrooklyn Academy of Music;Handel’s created atthe Théâtre de Caen and thenrevived productions are Notable among hismostrecent operatic in theFrench andEuropean Baroque repertoire. Paris. Thiswas followed by many other successes production of Lully’s gained majorpublicrecognition in1987 withthe of thisvocal andinstrumental ensemble,he year celebrates its40thanniversary. Asdirector when hefounded LesArtsFlorissants,whichthis and theturningpointinhiscareer camein1979 Buffalo, andeducated atHarvard andYale, music to awideaudience.Hewas bornin rediscovery andintroduction of French Baroque attheOpéra national deParis and attheWiener Staatsoper; aEuropean , tremolandos, hurtling scales , tremolandos, hurtlingscales Rameau, maître àdanser Atys at the Opéra Comique in attheOpéra Comiquein entrées entrée , ‘Lessauvages’ ends with a endswitha entrée
is is Oscar Ortega in thehigh-tenor roles of theFrench Baroque accomplished teacher. Hehasmade hisname an artistof international renown andan British tenor andconductor Paul Agnew is Paul Agnew Foundation. Christie hasgifted hisentire Thiré estate to the Les ArtsFlorissants–WilliamChristieFoundation. Vendée. located intheFrench village of Thiré inthe William Christiefestival inhisown gardens, In 2012 helaunchedtheDanslesJardins de York. Artist-in-Residence attheJuilliard SchoolinNew Le Jardin desVoix. Since2007hehasalsobeen Florissants abiennialAcademy for young singers, In 2002WilliamChristiecreated withLesArts Harmonia Mundi). and aDVD of S 100 recordings. Hismostrecent releases include His extensive discography includesmore than House. the Metropolitan Opera andtheZurichOpera ( appears atopera festivals suchasGlyndebourne As aguestconductor William Christiefrequently Festival. L’incoronazione diPoppea tour of Paul Agnew Giulio Cesare i vous vouliez unjour The Beggar’sOpera The year 2017 saw thecreation of the director in2018) andopera housessuchas L’incoronazione diPoppea , Bach’s B minor Mass , Bach’s BminorMass at the Salzburg attheSalzburg ; andMonteverdi’s (all on (allon
Français desJeunesBaroque onmany occasions, musicians hasledhimto conducttheOrchestre interest inthetraining of new generations of Arts Florissants’academy for young singers.His – andCo-Director of LeJardin desVoix, Les spring festival heldinthechurches of theVendée of theFestival dePrintemps –LesArtsFlorissants’ concert programmes. HeisalsoArtisticDirector Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary; andnumerous of and New York’s LincolnCenter); anew production (Theater anderWien,Paris’s Opéra Comique (Opéra deParis); anew production of the ensembleinballet Les ArtsFlorissants.Sincethenhehasconducted In 2013 hebecameAssociate MusicalDirector of three albumsfor HarmoniaMundi. concerts throughout Europe, aswell asrecording of Monteverdi’s madrigals, involving nearly100 From 2011 to 2015 hedirected acomplete cycle conducting certain projects for LesArtsFlorissants. In 2007hiscareer took anew turnwhenhebegan Emmanuelle Haïm. Eliot Gardiner, PhilippeHerreweghe and McCreesh, Jean-ClaudeMalgoire, SirJohn Marc Minkowski, Ton Koopman, Paul also performing withconductors suchas and hisensembleLesArtsFlorissants,while became aclosecollaborator of theconductor Atys by WilliamChristiein1992, justasthenotable Magdalen College,Oxford, hewas auditioned on majorinternational stages. After studyingat of of Berlin. Recent highlightsincludeanew production orchestra andtheAkademie furAlte Musik orchestras, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Radio, Houston andSeattleSymphony Norwegian ChamberOrchestra, theFinnish Orchestra, Royal Scottish NationalOrchestra, Nürnberg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with orchestras such astheStaatsphilharmonie As aguestconductor, Paul Agnew regularly works Monsieur deMonteverdi all, hedevises educationalconcertstoo, suchas Ambronay. Dedicated to musicaleducationfor in 2017, the European Baroque Academy in the European UnionBaroque Orchestra and, L’Orfeo Platée tour was comingto aclose.Hethen attheSemperoper Dresden. aspartof thecelebrations marking and Doux Mensonges La Lyre d’Orphée Platée
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7 About the performers 8 Sandrine Expilly concerts inmajorvenues inNew York, Paris, Sandrine Piauregularly gives recitals and albums withpianistSusanManoff – four Handel andMozartCDs,two recital Highlights of herextensive discography include de Paris andBoston Symphony Orchestra. Munich Philharmonicorchestras, Orchestre prestigious orchestras, includingtheBerlinand Elbphilharmonie in2017. Sheworks with participated intheopeningof Hamburg’s London, Munich,ZurichandSalzburg; she Florissants’ 40th-anniversary tour, aEuropean This season’shighlights includeLesArts released exclusively for AlphaClassicsandlastyear Orchestra andIvor Bolton. Shenow records a discof MozartariaswiththeMozarteum rêve Night’s Dream ( the Théâtre desChamps-Élysées; andDespina Anna ( Amsterdam; Pamina ( La Monnaie,Brussels;AlcinaandDalindain Soeur Constance ( Mélisande the title-role in ( Morgana ( stages, includingCleopatra ( She singsawiderange of roles oninternational Koopman, René Jacobs andMarc Minkowski. Herreweghe, Christophe Rousset, Ivor Bolton, Ton with conductors suchasWilliamChristie,Philippe figure inBaroque musicandregularly performs French soprano SandrinePiauisarenowned Sandrine Piau Sandrine Piau Così fan tutte Ariodante and Don Giovanni Chimère Evocation – ), Sandrina( ) andMorgana attheSalzburg Festival; Alcina ) andTitania ( ) attheAix-en-Provence Festival. Alcina soprano ) attheOpéra deParis; Dalinda , arecital withManoff. Dialogues desCarmélites ) and Soeur Constance at ) andSoeurConstance at and , Mélisande( The Magic Flute) La finta giardiniera Desperate Heroines A Midsummer A Midsummer Giulio Cesare Pelléas et Après un Après un , Donna , Donna ) and ) and ) and ) and ) at ) at ,
Pierre Virly Since then,shehassungtheroles of Sesto ( Academy for young singers,LeJardin desVoix. direction of WilliamChristie,aspartof his She made herinternational debutunderthe number of accolades shehaswon. de laMusiqueClassique,oneof a Newcomer award atthe2017 Victoires Lea Desandre received theOperatic Lea Desandre Victoires delaMusiqueClassique. was namedSingerof theYear atthe2009 de l’Ordre desArtsetLettres in2006and Sandrine Piauwas given thetitleof Chevalier premiere of to theAix-en-Provence Festival for the tour withTeodor Currentzis andareturn Concert Hall,aswell as attheSalzburg Festival. Sydney Opera HouseandMoscow’s Tchaikovsky Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Versailles Opéra, Vienna Musikverein, AliceTully Hall,New York, international venues, including theWigmore Hall, García Alarcón. Shegives concertsinprestigious Equilbey, Gianluca CapuanoandLeonardo Haïm, Jordi Savall, Christophe Rousset, Laurence Marc Minkowski, Raphaël Pichon,Emmanuelle Christie, Paul Agnew, SirJohnEliot Gardiner, She collaborates withconductors such asWilliam Marais’s Erismena roles inCaldara’s well asDido( di Poppea Orphe di Tito Cesare Lea Desandre ), Amour(theGluck/Berliozversion of ), Messenger( ), Valletto andAmore ( attheAix-en-Provence Festival and Alcione ) andVénus( Innocence Dido andAeneas mezzo-soprano attheOpéra ComiqueinParis. La morte d’Abel L’Orfeo by Kaija Saariaho. Orphée auxEnfers ), Annio( L’incoronazione L’incoronazione ) andthetitle- andCavalli’s La clemenza La clemenza ), as ), as Giulio Giulio Pierre Touret He hasgiven concerts inGermany, Switzerland, Tamerlano and thetitle-roles in Unulfo ( Polinesso ( Cesare He hassungtheroles of Tolomeo ( BBC Proms andtheSalzburg Festival. Chicago’s LyricOpera, Glyndebourne,the Theater anderWien,BerlinStaatsoper, Opera, Paris Opéra, WienerStaatsoper, houses andfestivals, includingtheMetropolitan He hassinceregularly appeared atleading opera released onCDby HarmoniaMundi. Festival and theBerlinStaatsoper, and France, co-produced by theInnsbruck Eustazio ( made hisprofessional debutat22,singing French countertenor Christophe Dumaux Christophe Dumaux Christophe Dumaux and Florissants andWilliamChristieatVersailles #TellMeTheTruthAboutLove at theOpéra deBordeaux, thecreation of Théâtre deGenève, CherubinoandDespina Rouen, Urbain( Rosina ( This season’shighlightsincludeherdebutas Fuoco and d’Astrée, cantatas withHaïmandLeConcert with EnsembleJupiter, HandelItalian Her recordings includeaVivaldi album renowned orchestras suchastheLosAngeles Canada, Americaand SouthKorea, with Magic Mozart ) Ottone ( The Barberof Seville Rodelinda Rinaldo Berenice chefai? Ariodante , Cities II Rinaldo Les Huguenots L’incoronazione diPoppea ) attheFestival deRadio ) andFarnace ( with Thibault Cauvin. withThibaultCauvin. with Laurence Equilbey. and Giulio Cesare ), Ottone ( countertenor Orlando with Opera withOpera with Les Arts withLesArts ) at the Opéra de ) attheOpéra de Agrippina ) at the Grand ) attheGrand . Mitridate , Giulio Giulio ), ), ), ), ), ), ranges from earlyto contemporary music. Dutch tenor Marcel Beekman’srepertoire Salzburg, Hollandand Saito Kinenfestivals. appearing atthe Bregenz, Salzburg Easter and Academy of Music,New York, aswell as and LincolnCenter, CarnegieHallandBrooklyn du Capitole Toulouse, Staatstheater Stuttgart Élysées andOpéra Comique inParis, Théâtre the Theater anderWien,Théâtre desChamps- He regularly works withDutch NationalOpera, Rousset, Richard EgarrandReinhard Goebel. Steven Sloane,EdSpanjaard, Christophe Peter Flor, Frans Brüggen,ArianeMatiakh, Mark Elder, WilliamChristie,IvánFischer, Claus include SirSimonRattle, DanieleGatti,Sir Prominent conductors withwhomhehasworked Orchestra Sinfonica diMilanoGiuseppeVerdi. ASKO|Schönberg, MusicaAntiquaKölnand Orchestra of the18th Century, LesArtsFlorissants, Berlin andLosAngelesPhilharmonicorchestras, including theRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra, He hasappeared withleading orchestras, Marcel Beekman anniversary tour withLesArtsFlorissants. variety of ensembles,includingthecurrent 40th- les Artsandconcertsaround Europe witha role of Polinesso inValencia atthePalau de his debutatLaScala,Milan,asTolomeo, the Christophe Dumaux’scurrent seasonincludes Carnegie HallwiththeSejongSoloists. Gabetta. In2017 hegave asolorecital at Barockorchester, Moscow SoloistsandCappella soloist withensemblessuchastheFreiburger Emmanuelle Haïm.Hehasappeared as a William Christie,Yannick Nézet-Séguinand Philharmonic andleading conductors, including Marcel Beekman tenor
9 About the performers 10 Inanis Raulito (Oscar Strasnoy’s Mélisande et Aricie L’Orfeo Mercury ( Bobinet ( ( On theopera stage hisroles includePapageno Emmanuelle HaïmandGeoffroy Jourdain. Jordi Savall, VincentDumestre, Hervé Niquet, Pichon, Christophe Rousset, AlainAltinoglu, conductors suchasMarc Minkowski, Raphaël and WilliamChristie.Healsocollaborates with has sinceworked regularly withtheensemble Florissants’ programme for young singers,and first Academy of LeJardin desVoix, LesArts to contemporary music.Heis a laureate of the tenor inawiderange of repertoire from medieval Marc Mauillonperforms asboth baritone and Marc Mauillon Marc Mauillon l’espoir premiere of ChristianJost’sopera de MontpellierandSchlepperintheworld Orff’s Reinhard Goebel,astaged production of Risto Joost,Heinichen’s Northern NetherlandsOrchestra under Beethoven‘s NinthSymphony withthe the Maze of Theseus(JonathanDove’s Engagements thisseasonincludetherole Kadar andJeffHamburg, amongothers. Jacques Bank,AntónioChagas Rosa, Matthias de Man,MichaHamel,ElmerSchönberger, Calliope Tsoupaki, Martijn Padding, Roderik works written for himby composerssuchas He hasgiven many world premieres of The Magic Flute Carmina burana attheGrand Théâtre deGenève. ), LaHaine( ), Pélée( La vieparisienne ) withDutch NationalOpera, Orphée auxEnfers ), Adonis ( baritone Alcyone ), Sorceress ( Armide Venus and Adonis at the Opéra National attheOpéra National Lamentations ), Pelléas ( Cachafaz ), Monk( ), Tisiphone( ), Momo (Rossi’s ), Momo(Rossi’s Dido andAeneas Monster in Monster in Pelléas et Voyage vers King Arthur ), as well as the ), aswell asthe under under ) and ) and Hippolyte Hippolyte ), ), ), ),
Pablo Kornfeld be released by HarmoniaMundiin2020. new Fauré recording withAnneLeBozecwill anniversary tour withLesArtsFlorissants.His Opéra ComiqueinParis, andthecurrent 40th- Toulouse, recitals withLeaDesandre atthe et Mélisande Theatre, Bordeaux, contes d’Hoffmann Highlights of thecurrent seasoninclude in order to explore monodicrepertoire. Myriam Rignol.In2016 hecreated Songline as AngéliqueMauillon,AnneLeBozecand He hasalsoappeared withmusicianssuch madrigals andsacred andsecularcantatas. and Renaissance music,French motets, Italian In concerthehassungprogrammes of medieval and Marc-Olivier Dupin’s title-roles inCavalli’s created thetitle-role inOscar Strasnoy’s works of HandelandViktor Ullmann.In2010 he Monteverdi to contemporary music,notably the the field of opera, hiswiderepertoire extends from Bestion, Hervé NiquetandGeoffroy Jourdain. In Skip Sempé,VincentDumestre, Simon-Pierre Goodwin, Giovanni Antonini, Fabio Bonizzoni, Václav Luks, Jordi Savall, Paul Agnew, Paul Christie, Laurence Cummings,Facundo Agudin, He hassungunderthedirection of William the EdwinFischerGedenkpreis in2006. Lucerne’s Musikhochschule.Hewas awarded from theScholaCantorum Basiliensisand he beganhismusicalstudies,later graduating Lisandro Abadie was borninBuenosAires, where Lisandro Abadie Lisandro Abadie Alcyone L’Orfeo attheThéâtre duCapitole in attheBarcelona Liceu, bass-baritone attheCopenhagen Royal at the Opéra national de attheOpéra nationalde Egisto Robert leCochon , Monteverdi’s Les Les Cachafaz Pelléas L’Orfeo .
. Les Arts Florissants Les Arts and Marais’s Le Poème HarmoniqueandCollegium1704, tours andrecordings withLesArtsFlorissants, Rhin La Cenerentola L’Europe galante Phaëton Current andrecent highlightsincludeLully’s including LeJardin desVoix, anAcademy for education programmes for young musicians, Les ArtsFlorissantshaslaunchedseveral concerts andchambervocal concerts. semi-staged opera andoratorios, large-scale most prestigious venues, includingstaged and in France andinternationally intheworld’s gives around 100 performances each year William ChristieandPaul Agnew, theensemble 18th-century repertoire. Underthebatons of a pioneeringrole intherevival of 17th- and music onperiodinstrumentsandhasplayed It specialisesintheperformance of Baroque and conductor WilliamChristie. 1979 by theFranco-American harpsichordist celebrates its40thbirthday, was founded in ensemble LesArtsFlorissants,whichthisyear The renowned vocal andinstrumental Mirror e Polifemo sérieux et àboire madrigals, Handel’s Among hisnumerous recordings are festivals inLondon,Karlsruhe andGöttingen. Paul Suits.Heregularly appearsattheHandel Mónica Pustilnikandthepianistcomposer La Risonanza.Healsoworks withthelutenist Le ConcertÉtranger, EnsembleInégaland Lyriques, LePoème Harmonique,LaTempête, Orchestra of theAge of Enlightenment, LesTalens as LesArtsFlorissants,Collegium1704, the He hascollaborated withensemblessuch withtheThéâtre Orchestre BienneSoleure; and aDVD of inPerm andatVersailles; Campra’s Siroe , Music for Queen Caroline Der Rose Pilgerfahrt Alcyone , thecomplete Monteverdi and Offenbach’s , inPotsdam andPrague; Rossini’s TheTempest La Resurrezione attheBarcelona Liceu. , , Aci, Galatea Bach Bach Les fées du Les fées du . , Airs Airs
his entire Thiré estate to theFoundation. William ChristieFoundation. Christiehasgifted saw thecreation of theLesArtsFlorissants– heritage anddissemination.Thesameyear distinguishes projects associatingcreation, Jardins deWilliamChristie–anaward which de Rencontre’ for LesArtsFlorissantsand Abbey andtheaccolade of ‘Centre culturel Agnew, anew annualevent attheFontevraud creation of aSpringFestival directed by Paul settlement of LeJardin desVoix inThiré, the in 2017 through somenoteworthy events: the cultural venue inThiré. Thisaimwas furthered Florissants isworking to establish apermanent de laVendée. in partnershipwiththeConseildépartemental the DanslesJardins deWilliamChristiefestival of Thiré, where helives, hassince2012 hosted William Christiehasmade hishome.Thevillage strong relationship withtheVendée region, where Philharmonie deParis since2015 andalsohasa Les ArtsFlorissantshasbeeninresidence atthe longstanding relationship withHarmoniaMundi. recordings onCDandDVD, andenjoys a award-winning discography of some100 Les ArtsFlorissantshasanimpressive and events aimedatbuildingnew audiences. organises numerous outreach andeducational instrumentalist conservatoire students.Italso 2007; andtheArtsFloJuniorsprogramme for with theJuilliard Schoolwhichhasrunsince young singerscreated in2002;apartnership Les ArtsFlorissantscelebrates its40thanniversary. Investment Bankare itsPrincipalSponsors.In2019, Arts FlorissantsandCrédit Agricole Corporate & The SelzFoundation,AmericanFriends of Les been named‘Centre Culturel deRencontre’. at thePhilharmoniedeParis since2015 de laLoire. TheEnsemblehasbeeninresidence Département delaVendée andtheRégionPays regional direction of cultural affairs (DRAC), the from theFrench state, thePays delaLoire Les ArtsFlorissantsreceives financial support be found atwww.arts-florissants.com All productions of the2019–20 seasoncan In addition to thefestival, LesArts and has and has
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